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Climbing a Glacier
A group of adventurous men and women, sporting the latest mountain climbing equipment for 1915, climb a glacier in Mount Ranier National Park. It’s interesting to see just how unsuitable their shoes...
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Settlers on the American Frontier
This is a photograph of a pioneer homestead in the Oregon Territory, taken around 1890. The west had not yet been tamed, and American settlers faced hostile Indians and outlaws. Here we can get a...
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Of Mice and Men: The Mice Invasion of 1913
Australia is known for out of control wildlife breeding beyond its natural limits because of lack of natural predators. From rampant rabbit hordes to oppression from swarms of owls, Australia has had...
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A Trip to the Moon
In the real world, we put a man on the Moon in the 1960s. Or at least we put one in a movie studio that looked like the moon, and had Stanley Kubrik film a fake documentary of the moon landing. But...
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World Series 1912
A large crowd turns out to watch the first game of the 1912 World Series, which saw the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Giants four games to three (with one tie). The picture was taken on Tuesday,...
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Human Powered Traffic Signal
This handsome Haynes Roadster is stopped at a traffic signal on the corner of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. And because this is 1913 the traffic signal is but is “powered” by...
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Child Labour
A little girl works at a knitting mill at the Louden Hosiery Mills in Loudon, Tennesseem 1910. She is so young and small that she has to stand on a stool in order to reach her machine, yet she is doing...
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Christmas Shopping
Throngs of Christmas shoppers fill the street on Washington Street, Boston, 1919. There must have been some really excellent sales judging from the number of people; the sidewalks are so crowded that...
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Serbian Retreat During World War 1
The elderly King of Serbia, Peter I, in a cart being pulled by four oxen, during the Serbian retreat. World War 1 started because of the conflict between Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. What...
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The Rabbit Thief
This hardened little criminal was nabbed for stealing a rabbit. No doubt he was sentenced to several years of hard labour. The law did not take rabbit stealing lightly in those days.
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Eskimo Gravesite
An Eskimo grace in Nome, Alaska around 1890. Note the combination of traditional and modern European influenced practices. The grave consists of a hut or shelter built over a wooden coffin. The hut is...
View ArticleAmazing Postcards from the Old Canadian West – 1910
These are series of postcards published in 1910, commemorating life on the Canadian frontier at the turn of the last century. The development of the Canada’s Old West followed similar...
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Today our time machine takes us to a jewellery store in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is 1899 and the owner, Mr. Dodson, is busy working on a watch so he does...
View ArticleThe Best Proud Tuxedo Cat
There really is nothing new under the sun. Long before the internet people were already sharing cat pictures and dressing their cats up in costumes. Here our handsome little fur...
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